i forgot that i very recently created a dir with a date name, to see what it would do

i'm not sure what it does with Puppy 216 beta, with 216 rc1 it causes a kernel panic

my pup_save.3fs file upgraded from 216 beta is still not unmounting cleanly, but it is causing less damage to the file system ... there are no orphan inodes, or other problems reported by a fsck ... it may be that the only problem is that the clean-unmount flag is not being set

i don't know whether a 2fs file is unmounted cleanly or not, fsck does not report any errors

I got a similar message yesterday (this was with Puppy 2.16 Beta)
told to pass the init variable to the kernel

The situation was this:
I had installed Puppy on to a hard drive with the universal installer in one machine with the idea of transferring the HD to one which could not boot from CD.

I was then attempting booting from the full HD install on a Compaq Pentium 133mz with 57MB memory (a 800MB partition and a 290MB swapdrive) that I found abandoned

Initially I had tried setting this system up with DeliLinux (seemed an ideal candidate - but that is another story)

I am not really sure where to go from here? I may wait for a cut down or bare bones version of 2.16 to be released, if anyone is intending that? _________________YinYana AI BuddhismLast edited by Lobster on Wed 16 May 2007, 00:58; edited 2 times in total

Don't feel to bad, I cannot get Puppy to run off of a frugal HD install,
I found;
In grub's menu.lst the path to the kernal in /boot should be /boot/puppy216.
Once the correct path is set, I still get a kernel panic error and was told to pass the init variable to it..
I did so, and still get a kernal sync error.....
The only way I can get puppy 2.16 to run on the hd is to do a full install, to the hd
3.50G hda1 rfs
6.25G hda3 rfs
0.25G hda2 swap
And then to get my Nvidia card to run, I have to test the mode, and select the generic driver...
Next I have to force a config of sound, and ethernet...
All is found/configured from cd bootup using pfix=ram and 256m swap on hda2..
GO FIGURE...
I also CANNOT get the sfs installer to do OO it unpacks all into the / dir....

I'll test the Universal Installer next, but please be sure that you have the correct version -- if you have been downloading Dougal's test versions, you may not have. The correct version is at /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/sbin/puppyinstaller and can be copied up to /usr/sbin.

The Universal Installer did not recognise my USB Hard drive when I chose to install to "Removable USB hard drive". I've hacked it some more. I tested frugal install to a ext2 first partition on it, works fine now.
Attached:

Barry, I don't think you used the my latest update of the installer -- the USB HD problem was solved after people sent me the results of the HW-test dotpup and I found that removable HDs are actually recognized as non-removable.

Why have you added the grub-style device names in the grub entries (initrd hd(0,0)/boot/initrd.gz)? it has been working fine for me all this time without them (initrd /boot/initrd.gz).

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